John Myers Myers
John Myers Myers (born January 11, 1906 in Northport (New York) , † October 30, 1988 ) was an American author of fantasy and western novels, as well as non-fiction books on the history of the Wild West .
Life
Myers grew up in Long Island and studied at the University of New Mexico . There he was de-registered after a short time when it came out that he had written texts for a rebellious paper called The Pariah . Extensive trips through the United States and Europe followed, during which he was also a correspondent for the New York World and the San Antonio Evening News . He also worked as a copywriter and served briefly in the US Army during World War II. He married in 1943 and lived in Tempe, Arizona , from 1948 .
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Myers' best-known work is the fantasy novel Silverlock (German: Die Insel Literaria ) is. In it, a shipwrecked man on the island of Commonwealth of Letters discovers characters from history, fairy tales and legends: every character in the book - except for the stranded hero A. Clarence Shandon - comes from a different literary work. The novel was repeatedly reprinted. With the sequel, The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter , the author took thirty years. Myers also made a name for himself as an expert on the Wild West; he wrote both non-fiction books on the subject and western novels. Among other things, he wrote The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man, a non-fiction book about the famous trapper Hugh Glass .
bibliography
- Fiction
- The Harp and the Blade (1941)
- Out on Any Limb (1942)
- The Wild Yazoo (1947)
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Silverlock (1949)
- English: The island of Literaria. Translated by Annette von Charpentier and Helmut W. Pesch. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 20063, 1984, ISBN 3-404-20063-2 .
- The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950)
- Dead Warrior (1956)
- I, Jack Swilling (1961)
- Maverick Zone (1961)
- The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (1981)
- Non-fiction
- The Alamo (1948)
- Print in a Wild Land (1967)
- Doc Holliday (1955)
- The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (1963)
- The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950)
- The Westerners: a roundup of pioneer reminiscences (1969)
- The Deaths of the Bravos (1962)
- The Border Wardens (1971)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 305.
- Mike Dickinson: Silverlock and The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter. In: Frank N. Magill (Ed.): Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. Vol. 4. Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1983, pp. 1749-1753.
- Gregory Feeley: Myers, John Myers . In: John Clute , John Grant (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Fantasy . Orbit, London 1997, ISBN 1-85723-368-9 .
- David Langford : John Myers Myers. ( https://ansible.uk/writing/dlb-myers.html online, accessed June 8, 2018).
- Fred Lerner (Ed.): A Silverlock Companion: The Life and Works of John Myers Myers. Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA 1990.
- David Pringle : Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels. Grafton Books, London 1988, p. 38 f.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1012.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 325.
- Gary Westfahl: John Myers Myers. In: David Pringle (Ed.): St James Guide to Fantasy Writers. St James Press, Detroit, MI 1996, pp. 439-440.
Web links
- Literature by and about John Myers Myers in the catalog of the German National Library
- John Myers Myers in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- John Myers Myers in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Works by and about John Myers Myers at Open Library
- John Myers Myers in Fantastic Fiction (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Myers, John Myers |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Northport (New York) |
DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1988 |